Pau Cardellach
Eutrophication (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Eutrophication is when a body of water becomes overly enriched with nutrients, normally from human activities, which induce an excessive growth of algae and bacteria. The excess of these organisms consumes the oxygen in the water, causing the death of other organisms such as fish and amphibians. Humans can also become stagnant; we can feel trapped within a society that mistreats us and contaminates us with its waste. It consumes our oxygen and saturates our lives, darken our crystals and turning off our lungs.
This series tries to show the stagnation that some of us suffer as a result of the pressure of living in a society governed by time. Due to the need of being constantly producing and consuming, a fact that causes an enormous amount of waste, physical and mental, we feel saturated inside.
AUTHOR
Dr. in botany, I live near Barcelona and I define myself as a restless, observant, critical and multifaceted person.
My work reflects the filtered light of nature. It derives from my three greatest passions, photography, biology and poetry. Starting from this point, I try different disciplines, often blending them together, such as landscape, portraiture, photojournalism, travel and wildlife photography.
In 2014 I produced, with Martí Boada, a photographic exhibition and a book about Yasuní rainforest “Expedición Científica al Amazonas Ecuatorial.” ISBN: 978-84-608-2163-2 and in 2018 I published a book about medicinal plants “Guia Terapèutica Plantes Remeieres, Barcelona, Spain, Ed. Farell” ISBN: 9788492811984
In February 2020 I co-directed a documentary about Ebro Delta, “The Delta’s Drop. An Underwater Future”.
I have photographic personal projects on my webpage, like “The beauty of hair” where Mireia expresses her disagreement and indignation about the stigmatization of female hair. “Anthophila”, photographs of pollen grains and bees posing in a variety of flowers. And “Nepenthes”, the craft process of some guys growing hemp (Cannabis sativa).
I have lectured at conferences such as Smart City Expo 2016 and MedPalyno 2017.
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